The Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said it has dragged the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Lateef Fagbemi and the Blue Economy Minister, Adegboyega Oyetola, before Western embassies and global rights groups for orchestrating disobedience of court order on Osun local government leadership.
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The party, in a statement by its Chairman, Hon. Sunday Bisi, also accused the duo of plotting and executing the current local government crisis in Osun state through deliberate disobedience of a Court of Appeal judgment recognising PDP elected chairmen and councillors and through callous withholding of local government allocations for the past five months.
He said, “Rather than ensuring compliance with the court order, the party pointed accusing fingers at Mr Oyetola for deploying his family relationship with President Bola Tinubu to illegally withhold Osun local governments’ allocations without any valid legal basis.”
Citing various legal details leading to the last Court of Appeal judgement, which upheld the legality of the PDP chairmen and councillors, the PDP reported to the global community that the Attorney-General and the Marine and Blue Economy Minister are insisting on paying the Osun local government fund to court-sacked APC chairmen.
“We found this development worrisome and an open threat to democratic governance. We call on the Western embassies and global rights community to sanction the two federal officials for actions and conduct capable of truncating democracy in Osun state,” Hon. Bisi noted.
“We seek a visa ban and other sundry punitive actions to force these federal officials to comply with the rule of law. This is a democracy, and no individual should be allowed to breach the constitution and due process as Mr Oyetola and the AGF are doing in Osun state.
“We seek interventions in terms of investigations, compilation and dissemination of reports on democratic threats in Osun state and its implications for the state and national elections of 2026 and 2027;
“We request investigations of all sources of threats to democracy using Osun as a point of reference, including the anti-democratic activities of the Nigerian Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, who is a cousin to Mr President.
“We crave that the diplomatic community and right groups adopt the Osun 2026 gubernatorial elections as a pre-2027 test case by highlighting risks and opportunities as the elections draw nearer”, the party was quoted as saying.
The PDP vowed to persist in pushing its protests from Transparency International, International Crisis Group, Amnesty International to Western Embassies and the European Union until the legitimately elected council leadership in Osun is allowed to function through the immediate release of Osun local government allocations.
Meanwhile, in a separate statement, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the leadership of the ruling party in the state as a bunch of jesters and unrepentant agents of misinformation and disinformation fondly misleading the innocent members of the public in particular, the diplomatic community and the global rights groups in general, on the true story about the local government allocations in the state.
The APC in a statement by its Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi said, “We understand the plight of the sunk Osun State PDP for coming around with such a frivolous, unfounded and fabricated allegation against the two eminent Nigerians as being responsible for their woes as it’s a mere ploy to keep the scattered and hopeless members of the party together.”
“It is not true that the allocations of the Osun State are being withheld, and it is a fallacy that two ministers are behind their woes.”
“The diplomatic community and the global rights groups are products of the rules of the laws, and none of them would encourage anyone to disobey the judgement of the Court of Appeal that reinstated the state APC as the leadership of the ruling party, and Governor Adeleke are doing in Osun State, where they gerry pick the court order to obey.”
“The Osun State PDP leadership should know that none of the organisations they reported Fagbemi and Oyetola to is a court of law. The PDP will gain nothing from writing the trash.”
“In Nigeria, the distinction between Municipal Law and International Law is very clear. Laws made in Nigeria, as well as obedience or disobedience to them and local courts, fall under Municipal Law. International Agencies have nothing to do with them, not to talk of International NGOs.”
“The procedure to be adopted if a court order is disobeyed for issues not related to money payment is clearly spelt out in Order 13, Sheriffs and Civil Process Act(Judgement Enforcement Rules) 2004 – you file Form 48: “Notice of Consequence of disobedience to Order of Court” – you file form 49: “Notice to show cause why order of attachment should not be made” – you file a motion for committal for contempt of court. Nowhere is it said that you will write International NGOs.”
“If the PDP handlers are quite convinced that Alhaji Oyetola and Mr Fagbemi actually disobeyed court orders, they know what to do, and they should stop deceiving themselves and beclouding the faces of their gullible members.”
“Writing petitions to NGOs is a waste of time. They have no jurisdiction. The PDP knows it has no case; that is why they refused to go to the Supreme Court or to file the necessary statutory forms”, he submitted.
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